CHRICED Advocates For Strengthening Of Maternal And Child Healthcare In Kano
Centre For Human Rights And Civic Education (CHRICED) on Thursday advocated for the need for effective use of maternal and child health through accountability intervention in Kano state.
While speaking, the Executive Director of the organization, Dr Ibrahim M.Zikirulahi, ably represented by the organization’s Senior Program Officer, Comrade Omoniyi Adewoye said CHRICED promised to keep stakeholders informed of the project’s progress and periodically share the results of projects activities implemented during the intervention, which he said is aimed at reducing maternal and child mortality in the state through accountability intervention, stressing that CHRICED has been present in the project’s focal local government areas of Gwale and Kumbotso since its inception.
Dr Zikirulah noted that through community enlightenment, workshops, accountability report back sessions, stakeholders’ consultative meetings, advocacy and dissemination of information, education and communication materials, the projects has made it possible to effectively engage citizens at grassroot levels as well as to reach out to public office holders and other key stakeholders.
“through community enlightenment, workshops, accountability report back sessions, stakeholders’ consultative meetings, advocacy and dissemination of information, education and communication materials, the projects has made it possible to effectively engage citizens at grassroot levels as well as to reach out to public office holders and other key stakeholders”.
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He maintained that evidence gathered through research and extensive engagements with people showed that ignorance, poverty, and lack of access to quality maternal and child healthcare have been the major contributory factors to the state’s “unacceptable ” high rates of maternal and child mortality.
“According to the evidence gathered through research and extensive engagements with people in local communities, poverty, ignorance, and a lack of access to quality maternal and child healthcare services are major contributory factors to Kano state’s unacceptable high rates of maternal and child mortality”, he said.
He state that it is imperative of his organization to galvanize stakeholders to draft Free Maternal Child And Healthcare Bill for Kano state as part of efforts to achieve the project’s goal of providing a legal framework for free maternal and child healthcare for the people of the state.
He added that his organization has also been engaging key stakeholders through strategic advocacy and extensive consultation to mobilize the necessary supports for the bill’s smooth passage to law in the state.
He disclosed that CHRICED has trained and deployed 40 citizens monitors to track maternal and child health expenditures in 50 primary healthcare facilities in Gwale and Kumotso, the project’s focal areas and as well as training 60 journalists and civil society organizations to monitor and effectively report on the state’s Maternal
Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) Technical Working Group.
He then enjoined the media and CSO partners, stakeholders in the maternal child health in Kano state and the relevant government officials and agencies, as well as the general public to join his organization and pursue the cause of reducing maternal and child health mortality in the state.
